Jim Taranto with a timeless truth

"The Republican Party is not without its flaws, but the Democratic Party would be much worse without it--and vice versa."

Too True, Too True. As an aside, here is Tom Delay at his retirement defending partisanship:

"You show me a nation without partisanship, and I'll show you a tyranny. For all its faults, it is partisanship, based on core principles, that clarifies our debates, that prevents one party from straying too far from the mainstream, and that constantly refreshes our politics with new ideas and new leaders. Indeed, whatever role partisanship may have played in my own retirement today or in the unfriendliness heaped upon other leaders in other times, Republican or Democrat, however unjust, all we can say is that partisanship is the worst means of settling fundamental political differences — except for all the others."

Two Cheers for partisanship!